The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Show HN: Things to Do API [1d]
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- Show HN: Fakeipedia – Wikipedia for worlds that don't exist [1d]
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- Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States [1d]
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- Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour [1d]
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- Nine-Inch Snails [2d]
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- Why harnesses matter for energy (and token) efficiency [2d]
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- I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets [2d]
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- Flux 3 Image Klein: open weights, 5.6B parameters [2d]
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- The Fatal Flaw of 911 [2d]
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- Claude writes about 90% of Claude Code's code [2d]
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- The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed [2d]
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- You could have invented transformers from memory [2d]
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- Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins [2d]
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- Show HN: Stoke Money – Personal finance app built around a cash flow forecast [2d]
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- Weatherdeck – a read-only status board for AI coding agent lanes [2d]
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- C++26: The New Debugging Header [2d]
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- Espresso machine can run Doom [2d]
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- Regex visualized as 3D marble run [2d]
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- Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console [2d]
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- Anthropic assigned highest junk credit rating in June [2d]
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- One parser, two bugs, many routers: Exploiting Broadcom WiFi across eCos, Linux [2d]
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- eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear [2d]
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- Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude [2d]
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- Anthropic Console overcharged my card 100x due to internationalization input bug [2d]
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- Go Piss, Girl: The plight of the public potty [2d]
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- The First Candid [2d]
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- Piramidal (YC W24) Is Hiring [2d]
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- 90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks [2d]
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- /dev/null: social network for developers [2d]
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- Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low [2d]
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- JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases [2d]
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- US Rep Announces Congressional Legislation to Protect Video Game Ownership [2d]
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- America's Wumao: Inside Polymarket's Paid Quote-Retweet Esports Program [2d]
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- Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix [2d]
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- CKKS – Addition and Multiplication [2d]
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- Show HN: OneDeploy – Managed open-source apps with nightly backups and TLS [2d]
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- A story of WiFi secrets, UART lockdowns and a damaged flash memory chip [2d]
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- Rendering pretty sky in Around The World game [2d]
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- A week on the farm with Dylan Araps [2d]
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- Hello Toronto – Waymo Is En Route [2d]
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- Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD [2d]
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- Show HN: Grimoire for Biology [2d]
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- Show HN: rStation – A shared research lab for your AI agents [2d]
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- Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic [2d]
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- What on Earth Is Dekton? [2d]
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- Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft [2d]
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- How to make System 1 LLMs show System 2 competencies? [2d]
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- Tesla Unveils 'Flying' Roadster with SpaceX Thrusters [video] [2d]
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- How to Formalize All of Mathematics [2d]
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- Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio [2d]
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- What was a Token Ring network? [2d]
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- RFC8950: Announce IPv4 with an IPv6 next-hop [2d]
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- "I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math [2d]
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- Show HN: Parin – A 2D game engine between raylib and Godot, written in Dlang [2d]
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- My old job feels distant now [2d]
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- Seized server Autistici/Inventati (A/I) in Amsterdam for U.S. authorities [2d]
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- Superoptimizing an FPU Emulator [2d]
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- I Love Software Rendering [2d]
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- Bark: The Toll-Free BBS for 90s Teens [2d]
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- Qualcomm Legally Proves Arm Breached Its License, Wins $2 [2d]
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- Artificial intelligence is capitalism's final destination [2d]
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- Japanese people still aren't having sex. And nobody knows why [2d]
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- Tesla's new Roadster makes a flying debut, hitting 60 MPH in under a second [2d]
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- Processing My Father's Death by Climbing in His Footsteps [2d]
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- Coconuts in Medieval Britain (2015) [2d]
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- Development of Norton Commander [2d]
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- The insider trading you're allowed to do [2d]
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- Lean Now Ships with Verified Kernels [2d]
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- Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium package [2d]
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- The Folders Programming Language [2d]
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- Self-Evolving Agent Harness [2d]
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- Tesla makes cars that fly? [video] [2d]
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- Chirp Pong – uses microphones and audio for networked game play [2d]
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- Porsche Mission S [2d]
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- Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Center City Philadelphia [2d]
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- Comparing Chromium Development at Google and Igalia [2d]
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- Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad [2d]
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- Tesla Roadster [2d]
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- Turn your regular JavaScript code into a neural net [2d]
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- Thank You, Deno [2d]
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- RPKI Now Protects 70% of Internet Routes, Up from 54% a Year Ago [2d]
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- A model where companies lease critical minerals instead of selling them [2d]
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- Apple updates App Review Guidelines to crack down on AI nudify apps and apps that reveal undocumented capabilities, like nudification, after app review (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac) [1d]
- Sources: Anthropic pitched its own AI safety bill to US lawmakers; the bill would limit the circumstances in which the government could block a model's release (Owen Dahlkamp/Politico) [2d]
- CEO Amjad Masad says Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, citing cost and saying "ChatGPT is better now"; source: the partnership is still in place (TechCrunch) [2d]
- Sources: Apple has hired Scott Tucker, Meta VP and deputy general counsel, as its new litigation chief, as part of a shakeup in its legal team (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Apple says demand for iPhone Duo has been "nothing short of extraordinary"; deliveries slipped to late January within hours of preorders opening (Michael Acton/Financial Times) [2d]
- Filings: Meta reduced its $65M midterms budget by $25M through refunds, primarily from a super PAC it launched in 2025 with $45M to fight state AI bills (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times) [2d]
- Anthropic says Claude traced NIST's ECDSA curve seeds to a pseudorandom number generator, challenging decades-old suspicions of an NSA backdoor in the algorithm (Anthropic) [2d]
- Sources: SoftBank weighs buying US security services giant Allied Universal at an ~$18B equity valuation, as Masayoshi Son explores deploying AI-powered robots (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Sources: Elon Musk approached Trump with the idea of slowing down Starshield in Ukraine; source: Trump agreed, paving the way for DoD to execute the slowdown (Joe Barnes/Telegraph) [2d]
- The PostgreSQL Global Development Group delays the general availability of PostgreSQL 19 after LLM-assisted code reviews uncovered architectural defects (Lindsay Clark/The Register) [2d]
- Three CoreWeave co-founders have sold $3.3B in stock since its March 2025 IPO, including $2.4B in 2026 alone; CoreWeave stock fell 60%+ from its June 2025 peak (Dylan Sloan/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Reflection AI releases Apache 2.0-licensed weights for Beam, a 501B-parameter model, trained with RL that penalized unnecessary tokens (Matt Marshall/VentureBeat) [2d]
- In its first meeting, Trump's Super Intelligence Force says it plans to commission a report on AI risks and develop protocols for labs to provide early warnings (John Harney/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Source: Intuit acquired UK-based B2B revenue management and billing startup Sequence in a sale worth ~$200M; Sequence raised $19M led by a16z in 2022 (Jess Jones/The Times) [2d]
- Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra review: powerful, useful Magnetic Connect port, bright screen, but heavy, loud, and Windows doesn't take advantage of RTX Spark (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware) [2d]
- Sources: PayPal, Epic, and others voiced concerns to DOJ as it signaled a preference to settle its Apple antitrust suit with a deal focusing on interoperability (Aaron Tilley/The Information) [2d]
- Organizers abruptly cancel 2026's Grace Hopper Celebration, one of the biggest events for women in tech, after sponsorships and registrations fall short (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Waymo plans to launch its robotaxis in Toronto in 2028 in partnership with Element Fleet Management, the company's first deployment in Canada (Prathik Jayaprakash/Reuters) [2d]
- Taiwan plans to curb AI server and chip exports to China as part of a US trade deal and make shipping restricted AI hardware to China a criminal offense (Bloomberg) [2d]
- US candidates and PACs, mostly tied to Republicans, have spent $137M+ on 220 AI-generated campaign ads in 2026; ~70% of the 220 videos didn't disclose AI use (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times) [2d]
- India's cyber agency says AI agents broke into Indian organizations' systems and read confidential files undetected; AI model providers flagged the incidents (Munsif Vengattil/Reuters) [2d]
- China is considering adding 23 AI technologies to its export control list, including LLMs and chip designs, to keep closer control over homegrown advancements (Nectar Gan/Bloomberg) [2d]
- OpenAI says its model paid for a deployment on an Ethereum test network with a wallet it did not own, after obtaining keys from public recovery phrases (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk) [2d]
- A look at China's AI learning frenzy, as economic anxiety and fear of being left behind fuel a booming market for courses promising prosperity through AI (Afra Wang/New York Magazine) [2d]
- Chinese state media: during an interview, Tim Cook says China has approved Apple Intelligence, and a test version will arrive in late October without Siri AI (Reuters) [2d]
- Taiwan plans US industrial parks costing $2B to $4B each, starting with a Texas complex costing up to $4B, to build a supply chain for Nvidia, TSMC, and Foxconn (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Austin-based RapidCanvas, which uses agents to help businesses build custom AI tools, raised a ∼$29M Series B led by Vertex Ventures and Hitachi Ventures (Chris Metinko/Axios) [2d]
- Sources detail Nscale's setbacks ahead of an IPO at up to a $35B valuation, including a six-month delay in Norway and penalties owed to Microsoft and ByteDance (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Microsoft unveils MAI-Base-2, a MoE model with 2.8T total and 80B active parameters, claiming 4x-12x more pretraining FLOPs-efficiency than DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base (Microsoft AI) [2d]
- OpenAI continues to work to grow its ad business in ChatGPT, cutting ad rates, chasing small and midsize businesses, and hiring some new talent from Meta (Alix Coutures/The Information) [2d]
- The White House's AI task force begins its 120-day window to evaluate AI, including producing a risk report, implementing the White House Accord on SI, and more (Ashley Gold/Semafor) [2d]
- Opsin, which helps companies show where AI agents are active, what data they access, and flag risky behavior, raised $21M led by SYN Ventures and Race Capital (Stephen Council/Business Insider) [2d]
- I gave a 13-year-old iMac a new lease of life with two simple upgrades — but was it worth it? [1d]
- The collapse of web coding gigs is getting ugly — AI takes over routine website development jobs, and business owners are very happy with its job so far [1d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, October 17 (game #1224) [2d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, October 17 (game #1727) [2d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, October 17 (game #958) [2d]
- 'Remarkably close to the minimum permitted by physics': this superconducting memory bit runs at an estimated 5x the limit, but at -269°C the fridge shrinks its claimed million-fold edge over today’s chips considerably [2d]
- Withings is charging smart scale users $100 for a basic health data feature [2d]
- Quote of the day by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy: "The hottest new programming language is English" [2d]
- Uplift V3 L-shaped standing desk review [2d]
- LG's next-gen OLED tech is coming to laptops and monitors first, and we've got a rough timeline [2d]
- 32,768 cores and 74 petaflops: AMD’s monster new rack for AI agents could be too much for traditional data centers [2d]
- Five of the web's biggest data-scraping brands now sit under one $3.6 billion umbrella, and AI agents are the reason why [2d]
- 'We should all be worried': Microsoft president says changes to green-cards could hurt US tech [2d]
- EcoFlow's Prime Day sale lives on with $250 off the Delta 3 Ultra power station [2d]
- Pinnacle Studio 26 Ultimate takes on Premiere Pro with a one-time fee [2d]
- Want Apple's first folding iPhone? You might be waiting until 2027 [2d]
- Thousands of specialized engineers deployed by AWS, Anthropic to prove AI is worth the investment [2d]
- How to watch ZDFneo from anywhere [2d]
- How to watch The Celebrity Traitors 2026 – Stream episode 6 for free from anywhere [2d]
- Corsair’s 32GB Vengeance RGB DDR5 hits the AMD and Intel 6000MT/s sweet spot for $510 [2d]
- The flying Tesla Roadster is an overbaked idea from my least favorite person [2d]
- D-Link, Ubiquiti devices hijacked by hackers to plunder stolen bandwidth [2d]
- How does the new Tesla Roadster 'fly', and is it dangerous to be around its thrusters? [2d]
- How to watch European Rugby Champions Cup 2026/27: Free streams & TV channels [2d]
- GoDaddy unlocks email, hosting, and commerce for AI agents [2d]
- Fake calendar invites hit thousands of businesses in Microsoft credential phishing campaign [2d]
- How to watch Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua: Tickets and Netflix Details [2d]
- PIA’s latest update claims to triple connection speeds on Windows — here's what's new [2d]
- Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i Gen 11 Aura Edition review: A creative studio that fits in your backpack [2d]
- 7 new movies and TV shows to watch at home this weekend (October 16) [2d]
- Lead audiologist explains hearing health, ANC and volume control [2d]
- Sega rolls out Sonic, Genesis and Dreamcast retro themed office chairs at Branch — and they're actually ergonomic [2d]
- Suunto may be working on a screenless heart rate monitor to take on Garmin [2d]
- Developer vibe-codes a free local Office clone for your browser [2d]
- Crucial’s $230 32GB DDR4 kit lets your PC ride out the RAM-pocalypse [2d]
- Accenture employees will only be able to spend $29 on Claude per month after some ended up splashing out thousands of dollars [2d]
- Is Adobe Acrobat Pro’s 3-year license worth it? Here’s how it beats the subscription [2d]
- OpenAI claims ex-employee took 100-plus secret files to Apple [2d]
- I'm rounding up all the best Apple iPhone Duo preorders in the US and UK — here's how to save as much as possible [2d]
- IPVanish has launched its Black Friday VPN deals for 2026 — old lower prices on its new look plans [2d]
- The best iPhone Duo pre-order deals in Australia: up to AU$1,885 in savings up for grabs [2d]
- Sony ECM-W5 review: a pricey wireless mic with a unique trick [2d]
- Three’s pre-paid 1000GB business SIM adds Vodafone roaming for a one-off £54 [2d]
- Razer Blade 16 is resurrected with a giant cooler made from a storage crate [2d]
- For $5 more than the 990 Pro, Samsung’s 14,700 MB/s 9100 Pro SSD is an easy upgrade [2d]
- Rethinking identity architecture to close the help desk security gap [2d]
- Sony backtracks on Android update promise for the Xperia 10 VI — and other brands might follow [2d]
- 15 Halloween desk accessories to bring a little horror to your home office [2d]
- Why education IT teams must protect both human and machine identities [2d]
- Gartner: The quantum threat is already behind schedule [2d]
- Sainsbury’s 'dangerous' facial recognition is back, months after ejecting an innocent shopper — and there’s no way to opt out [2d]
- Xgimi's new 4K 120Hz triple-laser projector gets fully unveiled in three different versions [2d]
- E Ink announces Kaleido 4 with improved color and brightness for ereaders [2d]
- The Wyze BodyScan smart scale redefines what is possible at a budget price point [2d]
- AI adoption has a talent problem - here’s how to solve it [2d]
- Tesla’s new Roadster can do a barrel roll, climb walls and hit 230mph [2d]
- How to watch Tulsa King season 4 online for free – stream Sylvester Stallone's crime drama from anywhere [2d]
- UK small businesses are spending big on Anthropic — but OpenAI isn't far behind as expenditure on AI tools hits new high [2d]
- Forget the iPhone Duo — the M4 iPad Air is a lot cheaper even at full price but it's now 21% off [2d]
- How to watch Samoa vs France for FREE: Live streams for Rugby League World Cup 2026 game [2d]
- Mova V70 Ultra Complete review: a full-featured robovac let down by subpar performance [2d]
- My favourite manual espresso machine of 2026 is now available with a huge 43% discount — there’s just one minor catch [2d]
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy claims China will transfer a Starlink-alternative to Moscow that could allow Russia to 'dominate the skies over Ukraine' [2d]
- Lego's 2026 Advent calendars are selling out already — here are this year's 6 new sets [2d]
- How to watch Grey's Anatomy season 23 — stream online from anywhere in the world [2d]
- Openreach self-install FTTP modem trial is reportedly going ahead [2d]
- Ukraine uses cheap 240-year-old tech to increase UAV range to 1,000km — aerostat flew 10km high before setting Mara free for an extra 60Km flight [2d]
- BYD launches slick Lucid rival in China with over 500-miles of range [2d]
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- Premier League Soccer: Watch Everton vs. Chelsea Live from Anywhere [2d]
- MapQuest App Shows You Where License Plate Readers Are in Your Area [2d]
- Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Spangram and Answers for Saturday, Oct. 17, #958 [2d]
- Bring Movie Theater Sound Home With $449 Off This Premier TCL Soundbar [2d]
- Host the Holidays With Less Work: SharkNinja Gear for Cooking, Treats and Cleanup [2d]
- Today’s NYT Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Saturday, Oct. 17, #1946 [2d]
- Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Saturday, Oct. 17, #1224 [2d]
- How to Build a Solo Video Setup with DJI: The Camera, Stabilizer and Mic You Actually Need [2d]
- Waymo Puts Toronto on the Map for Its Robotaxis [2d]
- This Kodak Point-and-Shoot Is My Go-To Camera, and It’s $30 Off Right Now [2d]
- Amazon Deals of the Day: Game On With Almost 40% Off Samsung’s Ultrawide Gaming Monitor [2d]
- Lectric’s Spooky Sale Is Anything but, and Saves You Up to $762 on Top-Tier Ebikes [2d]
- Woot Just Launched a Huge Sale on Vacs from Dyson, Roborock and More With Prices From $20 [2d]
- Tesla Roadster Fires Up SpaceX Tech for ‘Flying Car’ Demo [2d]
- Surprise! Meta and Apple Worked Together on a New Open-Source AI Model [2d]
- Meet the New HP OmniBook 5: An OLED Laptop Built for Long Days of Work, Class and Streaming [2d]
- 7 Things to Know Before Buying a Smart Doorbell for Your Dog [2d]
- Ready to Take Better Photos? How to Pick the Right Canon Camera for Beginners [2d]
- Air Fry Without the Countertop Clutter: How Midea’s New Appliances Can Help Your Holiday Cooking [2d]
- HP’s OmniBook Ultra 16 Gives Us a First Look at RTX Spark Performance [2d]
- IPhone Duo Preorders Sell Out in Minutes: Backordered Until January [2d]
- Apple’s HomeView Event Left Me With Questions [2d]
- Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra Review: A Screen So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades [2d]
- The Social Reckoning Review: Sorkin’s Facebook Film Is Uncomfortably Relevant [2d]
- Bose Ultra Open Earbuds (2nd Gen) Review: Affordability Is a Concern, but I Dig the Upgraded Sound [2d]
- The Unusual Item I Use to Degrease a Pan Before Washing It [2d]
- Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Tuesday, Oct. 20, #1227 [2d]
- Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, Oct. 16 [2d]
- Did AI Just Erase an Entire Swedish TV Show? [2d]
- Amazon drops the Razer Kraken V4 X to its lowest price in months [2d]
- Nest doorbells get their spooky chimes back just in time for Halloween [2d]
- AI has graduated from hacking companies to stealing from crypto wallets [2d]
- Android 17 QPR2 Beta 7.1 has the performance fix you’ve been waiting for [2d]
- Save $800 on the Valerion StreamMaster Plus 2 projector [2d]
- This watchmaker has reportedly exited the smartwatch market [2d]
- Google’s latest anti-doomscrolling tool is shedding its Pixel exclusivity [2d]
- Buying an iPhone Duo? Verizon has a few ways to make it cheaper [2d]
- Hate the idea of paying for YouTube Premium? Imagine paying $240 a year for regular YouTube [2d]
- This Samsung Galaxy Book 6 deal saves you 50% [2d]
- Far Cry comes to Android devices with full touchpad and gamepad support [2d]
- MapQuest’s new tool can help you avoid Flock cameras [2d]
- Samsung’s Switch 2-ready P9 Express microSD card just fell to $59.99 [2d]
- Price drop reduces the Nothing Ear to $69, a 37% discount off RRP [2d]
- Deal: The top-spec Pixel Watch 3 is now 50% off [2d]
- JBL Vibe Buds 2 fall to $39.95 on Amazon, down 33% from RRP [2d]
- Readers crown this Android flagship the best iPhone 18 Pro Max alternative [2d]
- Amazon drops the rugged Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 4 speaker to $64.99 [2d]
- Google AI Pro trials are misleading, and subscribers are finding out the hard way [2d]
- The original Halo has been ported to everything from Android to the N64 (?!) [2d]
- YouTube’s new search feature takes a page from Google Search, and that’s bad news for creators [2d]
- More Gmail users can now use Gemini to skim through work emails [2d]
- The first major OnePlus 17 leak hints at even higher refresh rate [2d]
- Android Auto’s missing signal bars are finally making a proper comeback [2d]
- The Galaxy S27 Plus could break nearly six years of tradition with this downgrade [2d]
- After Chrome, we now have a WhatsApp dupe on the Play Store with 500,000+ downloads [2d]
- Google Translate’s massive redesign is rolling out now [2d]
- Sony’s new $5,900 gold-plated Walkman music player doesn’t come with the latest version of Android [2d]
- Your next ePaper tablet will feel a lot more colorful, lot less like a faded newspaper [2d]
- I wouldn’t buy these phones, and neither should you [2d]
- I ignored this Google Maps feature for 10 years, and now I can’t live without it [2d]
- 5 things Google’s rumored Home Display should steal from the Apple HomeView [2d]
- This Android phone has the most ridiculous speaker, and I (mostly) love it [2d]
- WhatsApp is working on a better way to ask “Where are you?” [2d]
- WhatsApp could make stickers more fun with an audio upgrade [2d]
- Withings is paywalling third-party syncing, and users are rightfully mad about it [2d]
- Blame Snapdragon: An Exynos-powered Galaxy S27 Ultra is now more likely than ever [2d]
- Your Android phone is moving deeper into Windows 11 [2d]
- Google Wallet may be getting ready for two major new features [2d]
- Google’s next Gemini trick could change how you use Android XR glasses [2d]
- Sony just proved that ‘three OS updates’ doesn’t really mean anything [2d]
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